“Sometimes your dreams are dumb.” Truer words have never been spoken.

"That is all life is: making newer, better mistakes" I identify so much.

"Cutting corners always makes the car slower or less safe and nobody wants to go slower." Amazing.

Matt - I have just printed this on a banner and hung it up in my shop - "Life is all about making newer and better mistakes". It joins my father's, "Real engineering is not what you can put in - it's what you can take out". Thanks for all the hours of enjoyment!

I have to say, the sit on special construction looked absolutely insane. So much so that I can't allow it to be called a mistake 🤣

Wow! What a journey! Glad you documented so much of it and shared it with us, four times! =D

OMG, I have never simultaneously laughed so hard, and felt so personally attacked by one of your videos before.

The 3rd version (the sit-down bike) looked pretty badass.

Excellent as ever Matt 😂 The street legal iteration made me snort with laughter, as did the 🐙 in a blender analogy. Keep adolescent Matt in charge of project planning. Algorithm hailed…👍

F'ups are the joys of engineering! Hat's off mate for being honest and owning up on mistakes. We're all human!

Great story. You’ve inspired me to make worse, more expensive, and even more consequential mistakes.

Being an engineering student in FSAE right now and having a number of motorcycle related projects which are not progressing how I would have liked it’s cool to see where some of your practical experience has come from. It builds my confidence I’ll be able to make this half this cool one day.

What happened to the gigantic scooter?

Okay, so I've gotta know. The chassis on the first iteration of the bike: the upper-most horizontal members are different diameters. The left hand side tube is bigger than all of the others. Was there a purpose to this? Or just the result of available material? I'm assuming this was to run something through the chassis on one side?

Your delivery of anecdotes and jokes, along with the stories behind them are just absolutely, astonishingly, unbelievably... ok. and I love it. ❤️

"sometimes your dreams are dumb" Best line ever!!!!!

Love your videos. You dropped some wisdom in this one, "Life is making newer, better mistakes"

Love the humor as always, and I would like to think the failed experiences only make your current project car that much better than it would have been had you not had these 4 learning experiences.

Hey Matt, thanks for showing off the parts you get from Send Cut Send! I was struggling to figure out how to mount some garden tractor wheels on a pedal-powered machine I’m working on, until I remembered you showing off some custom parts you had them make for one of your projects. It only took me a few minutes to use their online parts builder to design and order some flanges to mate the wheels to my bicycle axles. I just got the parts in the mail, and they are awesome!

I've mostly resigned to finish my automotive mistakes after the kids are grown and out of the house. My current checklist looks a lot like your old one, but with the motivation line item dangerously close to being crossed off too.

As a guy who has been working on a human powered streamliner for…longer than I wish to admit… (4 years) I know EXACTLY how you feel!

Your worst engineering work has resulted in your best philosophical work. The lines "That's what life is: Making newer, better mistakes" And "You don't always have to follow your dreams, because sometimes your dreams are dumb" put this video in the best of Matt tier.

I love following all your builds!

Great story, Matt, thank you from all of us who have projects that were better left pushed into the ocean.

This is why I like boat projects. Every one eventually gets pushed into the ocean. And when they catch fire and sink, it’s much more difficult to revive and rebuild, thereby saving you from yourself. And the boat. Sometimes.

Absolutely brilliant episode! Thank-you!

Wow, I think this is the most well packaged content and messaging you've done yet Matt! Thanks for the insights!

A splendid story. I feel so much better now. Thank you. Keep up the great work. 😊

Thank you for documenting a successfully failed project. That story was glorious. And your finishing notes were perfect.

Love motorcycles. They're all insane. And things that are dangerous are fun!

I had to stop for a bit at ; 'Cutting corners always makes the car either slower or less safe, and nobody wants to go slower' I guess no one really cares if it's less safe 😁 Also, the 'making newer, better mistakes' I'm constantly chuckling, and sometimes almost laughing out loud watching your videos. The whole 'I resolved to decide' part coming up again is as hilarious as it is terrifying to think could happen to any of us. You should get yourself a YT channel where you can talk about your projects, because this is all gold. I mean, you already have, but if you didn't already do it you should have done it. (my superpower is hindsight) Edit; I scrapped the shell for my project car a few years, and have sold some of the parts I was meaning to use for it lately , and I think I felt bad about it until now. Life may just have gotten in the way to try and save me from it.🤔

Excellent format and brilliant story! The deadpan is perfection! 👍

What a great story! And very well told.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I think that you were very successful because you always ended with a bike you could ride. 99% of Motorsports projects just end up being a basket of parts. Thanks for sharing!

This video encapsulates the spirit of mankind, doing things, learning from mistakes, doing it again, with new mistakes, looking back, thinking it's dumb, but sometime after, realizing, it was great. amazing!

I subbed for this, good job guy! Can't wait to see the rest of your crazy shit!

0:58 a man after my own heart

Great story!! Love it! love your videos!

The best, most fun I've had on KZfaq in a long while. Keep up the "Good work" matt. All hail the algorithm.

First, Thomas Edison's response to the question about the 1,000 unsuccessful attempts to make a functioning lightbulb was actually "Fuck off". Not a lot of people know that. Second, your experience building and rebuilding that thing is the same sad tale as my homemade Lotus 7 hillclimb/dragcar/autocross/dailydriver project. It's going to be AWESOME this time! My inner 12yr old assures me of it. When I start to get discouraged 12yr old Jon shows up in his smelly Van's and threadbare AC/DC t-shirt and reminds me that quitters never score and to stop screwing around trying to make a 12A rotary streetable and just put a smallblock Mopar w a tunnelram in the frikken' thing and go waste some fools. Third, it's unfortunate you gave up on that streamliner before you did the obvious thing to get the project back on track and add a second engine. I thought you were a carguy

You are way too honest and narration is hilarious. You have learnt so much. Fantastic . #respect

This made my evening Matt. So many thanks for sharing!

Some of the best story-telling ever. The successes may make for epic experiences, but the failures make for *epic* stories. Best. Motorcycle. Ever.

Man, I wish you'd spent even more time on this project... It is yoir one project that really gets my heart racing

I gotta say - 80% of the time, I am watching your channel just for the comedic content. I enjoy the engineering aspect of your builds as well. Keep it up Matt. I'll keep watching. :)

I have to say, this video was produced excellently. The script in particular was fantastic, not to mention the bike itself.

Some of the things you mentioned reminded me of the SV Seeker metal boat building project that was built in the yard of an ex-IT, database administrator who fancies himself a bit of an engineer. Through out the course of the project he would take the 'cheap out' route when selecting parts and methods for doing the building an only arguing with the more experienced people who volunteered on the project. Once the boat hit the water and testing the systems began, a lot of the poor choices have bubbled to the surface requiring that they be modified, and the more expensive parts purchased and installed when doing the work of course is harder. Your reminded me of him when you talked about paying more money in the end due to buying the wrong things first, and then having to replace them later. I do admire your honesty. I mean no offense to the SV Seeker project owner, but his ego will never let him admit to making these kinds of mistakes, at least he doesn't admit it in his video presentations.

Perfect attitude for success! Also a great story!

Every time I’ve put off doing a major project at my house, it came out far better than if I’d done it sooner. Taking more time to iron out the details is always best.

I love your philosophical and humorous way of telling your stories!! I can so identify

This video automatically earned a subscriber. Absolutely bonkers ya build these, love it.

Hi Matt, I am lucky enough to be a crew member for Denis Manning's BUB 7 Motorcycle Streamliner you pictured in the video! The red one. I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy, and truly learn, from your content. Please keep them coming!

A+ content, thanks for sharing the journey!

First time watching your videos and I’m now a sub. Informative but entertaining. Excellent

Flushing a brilliant John Barnard interview to see SuperfastMatt... bravo you made it!

7:51 I honestly can’t tell if your humor is so far above average, or just decent humor with life-experiences that are so far above average. Either way I’m here for it! All hail the algorithm!

Brilliant story Matt, "set it on fire and roll it into the ocean" had me in tears! lol

I was just minding my business and goofing off on KZfaq and I didn’t expect to find a video so excellently interesting and entertaining.

You are a funny guy who can write a great script and do some fancy engineering. I love it! 😍💪👍

very informative… and very funny too ! What sense of humor, congrats !

Your sense of humour is so dry it leaves us Brits in the dust, as always excellent, thanks Matt.

haha!!! Great video. Good narration style. Love the dry humour. Very entertaining.

This was really well shared. Entertaining throughout.

My hats off to you mister SuperfastMatt! From one design engineer to another, I appreciate the video and I'd like to know what CAD software you used in developing the cycle?

I really like how honest you are about the whole thing. So many videos are 5% talking about how they got there and then 95% celebrating victory. Yours are 95% talking about how you got there (and all the stupid decisions you made along the way) and maybe 5% celebrating victory. Or not. You share the story even if you don't win in the end.

A small part of me expected "The Final Form" to be a picture of the frame rusting away in the ocean, with burn marks all around.

I highly enjoy your content. Thank you very much ❤️

Dude, this was absolutely hilarious! You are a master of dry wit.

I am not involved in the car community whatsoever, so it's pretty awesome to know other people have the same problems as I find myself making. I always get in way over my head too. I resolved to rewire my imported 30 year ols Land Rover Defender after seeing your wiring video. Bought all the things that were recommended, went out to my truck and immediately found myself staring into the void and realized I was in way over my head right now. I did, however, wire up an engine bay light using almost none of the recommended materials or processes and then called it a day. I'll rewire when I get a chance to redo the frame. Anyway, your videos are great. I don't want to do patron because I'll inevitably forget to cancel it much like a hundred other subscription service I have, but if you sign up for something where I can throw you a few bucks I will. Keep it up!

At the final version I was in TEARS!! 😭😭 Thanks for this hilarious video! ❤

This video is incredibly motivational and demotivational at the same time, and man, what a ride you've had (pun intended). Best of luck on your next mistakes!

Equal parts philosophy and machinery. Love this content, Matt!

The most entertaining video I have watched on KZfaq. Well done mate.

Liking the humor and the attitude, you just got a sub.

Nice lotus general arrangement drawing over your shoulder. I have same. Thank you for the video. C

Thank you, Matt. Your thoughtful and brutally observant take on your process is a welcome acceptance. I, too have walked this path, and it is well-worn. Many gearheads will deny failure, and that denies true learning. I embrace the failure, and I am proud of you for doing the same. Forward, through the stars, my brother.

The lowspeed pass on the lake sounded like George Jetson's pod with the large capacity powerplant option

"cutting corners makes you slower and less safe, and nobody wants to go slower."

Thank you for sharing the story of this wonder of mechanical engineering. Well done

Thank you for this video, I needed it ;)

hey not dieing is a great outcome! great video, thanks for sharing. looks frustatingly fun.

There is a lot to unpack here, but some of the best realistic advice ever heard on a KZfaq channel.

This channel deserves way more subscribers. It's a great channel.

I love. Great stuff, man. 😂👍

Excellent words of advice at the end there 🙏

So comforting to know that there are other individuals out there who I can relate to and the same struggle with insanity in my head........ Looking back on 55 years I often ask myself why didn't I just live a normal life ? But then again that wouldn't have been me. 'We make easy hard' is probably a suitable frase to best describe us ? Thanks for your courage to give people an insight. 💪🤦‍♂️👍

Right there with ya, homey. This one hit home. #projectoddball. Thanks for sharing!

I’m just laughing here. Thank you for sharing your awesome experience based wisdom. And the ocean sighed for the lack of a burning bike to quench and devour. 👀🧐😎😜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Peace

love it, had a laugh ty, great job i like the comedy stile

superfast matt: engineer, racer, philosopher.

your storytelling and narration are fantastic

This was pure gold !!!

Thank you for sharing your story. Regrets NO ! Learning YES ! AND YOU LIVED TO TALK ABOUT IT. A LIFE WELL LIVED. KEEP UP THE EXPLORATION......

I always wanted a project car, but I don't possess the money or skill to make it really happen... so I just tool around in my boring Niro EV, dreaming about what could have been. Until I watched this video, then I'm glad it never was. Thanks Matt!

SuperfastMatt, story teller of the century.

Another great video. I bet the motorcycle was a great learning experience for a land speed car. No wonder it looks like you have do it before.

LOVE the Furniture Row #78 Cup car behind you, what a great chapter of NASCAR history...A "dumb idea" that worked out...

Great video, you are an excellent story teller.

Matt ... YOU FIRE HUMAN Stay with us MANY MANY MANY MORE YEARS ! Much love from NORTH OF THE WALL!

ROFL!! That end part: Needing money to make mistakes. Priceless!!